Paul Genoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 5406822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Genoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Genoni |
| SIGNATURE | GENONI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2921-4104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When the Drums Went Bang: Ruth Park’s ‘Truth in There Somewhere’
Park achieved a late career milestone with her back-to-back memoirs, A Fence Around the Cuckoo (1992) and Fishing in the Styx (1993).They found favour with both reviewers and readers and were recognised as important summations of a long life and productive career. 1 After completing these two volumes, the only major undertaking that remained for Park was working with Rafe Champion on Home Before Dark (1995), the biography of Australian boxer Les …
From the Origins of Gallipoli to an Orange Head: Incidents in the Friendship between Sidney Nolan and George Johnston
This article presents results of research using the diaries of Sidney Nolan, recently made available by the National Library of Australia. In particular, it focuses on two matters relating to Nolan’s lengthy friendship with Australian journalist and novelist George Johnston: clarifying the origin of Nolan’s Gallipoli series, which is strongly associated with a period in 1955 and 1956 that Nolan spent with Johnston on the Greek island of Hydra; an…
Taking the flowery bed back to Australia: The Repatriation of Charmian Clift and George Johnston
Since coming to national attention in the immediate post-World War II years Charmian Clift and George Johnston have remained an enigmatic and almost â mythicalâ Australian literary couple. At the heart of their shared biographies is the near-decade they spent on the Aegean island of Hydra between 1955 and 1964 where they were at the centre of an international community of writers and artists, and their eventual repatriation to Australia when thei…
Taking the flowery bed back to Australia’: The Repatriation of Charmian Clift and George Johnston
Since coming to national attention in the immediate post-World War II years Charmian Clift and George Johnston have remained an enigmatic and almost â mythicalâ Australian literary couple. At the heart of their shared biographies is the near-decade they spent on the Aegean island of Hydra between 1955 and 1964 where they were at the centre of an international community of writers and artists, and their eventual repatriation to Australia when thei…
Desperately Seeking Suzanne: Photographs in Suzanne Chick's Adoptee-narrative Searching for Charmian
In 1994, Suzanne Chick published Searching for Charmian, an adoptee autobiography that relates Chick's discovery of her birth-mother's identity. Chick had been aware from a young age that she was adopted, but only discovered in middle age that her birth-mother was well-known Australian author and journalist, Charmian Clift.Unlike the reconciliation trajectory that many adoption autobiographies take, a physical reunion between Clift and Chick was …
Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time
The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago
This paper offers a reading of recent accounts of journeys on one of the great Christian pilgrimage routes, to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. It focuses on the common narrative strategy of a disrupted sense of time expressed by the pilgrim-authors, and argues that this trope is intrinsic to texts that suggest that time has been ‘crossed’ and that the author has undertaken a ‘medieval’ experience. It is argued that this trope of cross…
ERA and the Ranking of Australian Humanities Journals
Review 45 Guy Redden draws upon his experience with the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in the UK to warn Australian researchers of various dangers posed by the implementation of similar methods of evaluation that may be introduced under the banner of Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA). Redden is concerned with the tendency of emerging forms of research evaluation to privilege a small number of 'high ranking' journals, and of the disto…
A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900
A fresh, twenty-first-century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive, and multicultural sense. Australian literature is one of the world's richest, dealing not only with "local" Australian themes and issues but with those at the forefront of global literary discussion. This book offers a fresh look at Australian literature,taking a broad view of what literature is and viewing it with Australian cultural and societal concerns in mind.…
Unbecoming Australians: Crisis and Community in the Australian Villa/ge Book
Examines recent Australian examples of travel memoirs that 'recount the author's attempt to live the southern European dream in ways that are not available to "tourists"'. Discussing the books as 'forms of autobiography', Genoni asks: What exactly is meant by the invention of self in the context of such books? What can we generalise about the places to which authors of the villa books choose to relate? If these books are autobiography, then exact…
The use of the Internet to activate latent ties in scholarly communities
This paper presents the results of a survey on the use of the Internet by university-based scholars to contact unknown peers. These contacts are considered as examples of the activation of “latent ties” which are said to exist within communities with associated interests. The research indicates that the Internet facilitates the activation of these ties and that the degree to which it is used for this purpose is associated with academic rank
Subverting the Empire: Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction
JAS review of books
Don Watson, Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, Knopf, 2003, hb $29.95, ISBN 1740512065. Spencer Zifcak, Mr Ruddock Goes to Geneva, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 92, pb $16.95, ISBN 0868404551. Frank Brennan, Tampering with Asylum: A Universal Humanitarian Problem, University of Queensland Press, 2003, pp 234, pb $30.00, ISBN 0702234168. Geoffrey Barker, Sexing it Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 112, pb $16.95, ISBN 08…
JAS Review of books
David Hendy, Radio in the Global Age, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp 260, pb $53.90. Rob Johnson, Cash for Comment: The Seduction of Journo Culture, Pluto Press, Annandale, 2000, pp 286, pb $32.95. J Mohan Malik (ed.), Australia's Security in the 21st Century, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999, 304 pp, $32.95. Andrew McGahan, Last Drinks, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2000, pp 377, pb $24.95. Eve Langley, The Pea‐Pickers (1942), A&R Classics, Sydney, 2001,…
Subverting the empire: Exploration in the fiction of Thea Astley and Peter Carey
Unbecoming Australians: Crisis and Community in the Australian Villa/ge Book
Examines recent Australian examples of travel memoirs that 'recount the author's attempt to live the southern European dream in ways that are not available to "tourists"'. Discussing the books as 'forms of autobiography', Genoni asks: What exactly is meant by the invention of self in the context of such books? What can we generalise about the places to which authors of the villa books choose to relate? If these books are autobiography, then exact…
JAS Review of books
David Hendy, Radio in the Global Age, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp 260, pb $53.90. Rob Johnson, Cash for Comment: The Seduction of Journo Culture, Pluto Press, Annandale, 2000, pp 286, pb $32.95. J Mohan Malik (ed.), Australia's Security in the 21st Century, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999, 304 pp, $32.95. Andrew McGahan, Last Drinks, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2000, pp 377, pb $24.95. Eve Langley, The Pea‐Pickers (1942), A&R Classics, Sydney, 2001,…
Subverting the empire: Exploration in the fiction of Thea Astley and Peter Carey
Subverting the Empire: Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction
JAS review of books
Don Watson, Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, Knopf, 2003, hb $29.95, ISBN 1740512065. Spencer Zifcak, Mr Ruddock Goes to Geneva, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 92, pb $16.95, ISBN 0868404551. Frank Brennan, Tampering with Asylum: A Universal Humanitarian Problem, University of Queensland Press, 2003, pp 234, pb $30.00, ISBN 0702234168. Geoffrey Barker, Sexing it Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 112, pb $16.95, ISBN 08…
The use of the Internet to activate latent ties in scholarly communities
This paper presents the results of a survey on the use of the Internet by university-based scholars to contact unknown peers. These contacts are considered as examples of the activation of “latent ties” which are said to exist within communities with associated interests. The research indicates that the Internet facilitates the activation of these ties and that the degree to which it is used for this purpose is associated with academic rank
A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900
A fresh, twenty-first-century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive, and multicultural sense. Australian literature is one of the world's richest, dealing not only with "local" Australian themes and issues but with those at the forefront of global literary discussion. This book offers a fresh look at Australian literature,taking a broad view of what literature is and viewing it with Australian cultural and societal concerns in mind.…
Unbecoming Australians: Crisis and Community in the Australian Villa/ge Book
Examines recent Australian examples of travel memoirs that 'recount the author's attempt to live the southern European dream in ways that are not available to "tourists"'. Discussing the books as 'forms of autobiography', Genoni asks: What exactly is meant by the invention of self in the context of such books? What can we generalise about the places to which authors of the villa books choose to relate? If these books are autobiography, then exact…
ERA and the Ranking of Australian Humanities Journals
Review 45 Guy Redden draws upon his experience with the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in the UK to warn Australian researchers of various dangers posed by the implementation of similar methods of evaluation that may be introduced under the banner of Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA). Redden is concerned with the tendency of emerging forms of research evaluation to privilege a small number of 'high ranking' journals, and of the disto…
The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago
This paper offers a reading of recent accounts of journeys on one of the great Christian pilgrimage routes, to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. It focuses on the common narrative strategy of a disrupted sense of time expressed by the pilgrim-authors, and argues that this trope is intrinsic to texts that suggest that time has been ‘crossed’ and that the author has undertaken a ‘medieval’ experience. It is argued that this trope of cross…
Desperately Seeking Suzanne: Photographs in Suzanne Chick's Adoptee-narrative Searching for Charmian
In 1994, Suzanne Chick published Searching for Charmian, an adoptee autobiography that relates Chick's discovery of her birth-mother's identity. Chick had been aware from a young age that she was adopted, but only discovered in middle age that her birth-mother was well-known Australian author and journalist, Charmian Clift.Unlike the reconciliation trajectory that many adoption autobiographies take, a physical reunion between Clift and Chick was …
Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time
Taking the flowery bed back to Australia: The Repatriation of Charmian Clift and George Johnston
Since coming to national attention in the immediate post-World War II years Charmian Clift and George Johnston have remained an enigmatic and almost â mythicalâ Australian literary couple. At the heart of their shared biographies is the near-decade they spent on the Aegean island of Hydra between 1955 and 1964 where they were at the centre of an international community of writers and artists, and their eventual repatriation to Australia when thei…
Taking the flowery bed back to Australia’: The Repatriation of Charmian Clift and George Johnston
Since coming to national attention in the immediate post-World War II years Charmian Clift and George Johnston have remained an enigmatic and almost â mythicalâ Australian literary couple. At the heart of their shared biographies is the near-decade they spent on the Aegean island of Hydra between 1955 and 1964 where they were at the centre of an international community of writers and artists, and their eventual repatriation to Australia when thei…
From the Origins of Gallipoli to an Orange Head: Incidents in the Friendship between Sidney Nolan and George Johnston
This article presents results of research using the diaries of Sidney Nolan, recently made available by the National Library of Australia. In particular, it focuses on two matters relating to Nolan’s lengthy friendship with Australian journalist and novelist George Johnston: clarifying the origin of Nolan’s Gallipoli series, which is strongly associated with a period in 1955 and 1956 that Nolan spent with Johnston on the Greek island of Hydra; an…
When the Drums Went Bang: Ruth Park’s ‘Truth in There Somewhere’
Park achieved a late career milestone with her back-to-back memoirs, A Fence Around the Cuckoo (1992) and Fishing in the Styx (1993).They found favour with both reviewers and readers and were recognised as important summations of a long life and productive career. 1 After completing these two volumes, the only major undertaking that remained for Park was working with Rafe Champion on Home Before Dark (1995), the biography of Australian boxer Les …
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